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Iraq: National Sovereignty and Military Occupation are not Compatible
By Prof. Ramzy Baroud
May 3, 2006
In a seemingly poignant analysis of the situation in Iraq, BBC news online analyst, Jim Muir assessed Iraqi politics following the choice of Jawad Al Maliki as prime minister designate.
Muir’s detailed analysis failed to even hint at the possibility that the unwarranted US-British military occupation of Iraq is at all a factor in the growing sectarian divide, the insurgency and the (…)

Hideous Kinky: Moral Nullity as Normality in Pentagon Plans
By Chris Floyd
May 1, 2006 chrisfloyd.com
Imagine growing up in a family where every day, father raped daughter, mother tortured son, brother abused brother, sister stole from sister, and the whole family murdered neighbors, friends and passing strangers. Imagine the underlying assumptions about life that you would adopt without question in such an atmosphere, how normal the most hideous depravity would seem. If some outsider (…)

How the Bush Administration is Using Terror Laws to Prosecute Nonviolent Environmental Activists
Green is the New Red
By WILL POTTER counterpunch
The Red Scare was less about evidence than really great PR. Joseph McCarthy and crew flacked one word so relentlessly, so virulently, that it became a political albatross to hang around anyone’s neck. The true meaning of the word fell by the wayside: communism became a fluid brand to slap on the enemy of the hour.
Now, Green is the new Red. (…)

Message from a Vet of My Lai Time
"Our Descent Into Hell Has Begun"
By TONY SWINDELL http://www.counterpunch.org/
A few weeks ago we got a friendly letter from Tony Swindell, a newspaper editor in Sherman, Texas. "Begin paying attention," Swindell urged, ’’to stories from Iraq like the very recent one about U.S. Marines killing a group of civilians near Baghdad. This is the next step in the Iraq war as frustration among our soldiers grows — especially with multiple tours.
’’I served (…)

Hecklers interrupt Rumsfeld speech
Defense secretary cites importance of non-traditional allies
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday, and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment.
"Why did you lie to get us into a war that caused these kind of casualties and was not necessary?" asked Ray McGovern, the (…)

From Today’s Little Red Email It was October last year when we came home, flicked on the radio and listened aghast to the news that the Iranian president denied the Holocaust had happened and said the state of Israel should be wiped off the map. ‘Christ,’ we thought, ‘this nut job’s playing into their hands with this kind of rhetoric.’ Since then “the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion” as one US academic has described the Iran/US imbroglio has ratcheted up to high alert with Seymour Hersch (…)

The USDA is proposing to amend the National Organic Program regulations to reflect the legislative changes made in Congress.
The USDA proposal could allow:
· Young dairy cows to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production.
· Numerous synthetic substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review and approval by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
TELL USDA (…)

As concerns rise about the Bush administration’s disregard for laws, the House Rules Committee is suffocating efforts to give whistleblowers a voice, and the Committee Chair has a conflict of interest involving an alleged double agent for China who contributed to Republican campaigns.
When the Committee considered ethics reform legislation last week, it blocked a floor vote on reforms that included protections for whistleblowers who warn of failures and abuses in national security (…)

It y’ has a part of the world which is unaware of an other part of the world. The rich part is unaware of the poor part. And from time to time the poor one tries to recall the rich person who it exists, it too. That it has right, it also, with happiness and good things. This time the recall is striking, of force and imagination. Will the genius of poor awake T-it it rich...? The rich person is impressed, but necessarily not awaked. ’ ’ Awaye.. Light the riche’ ’. It does not light. At least (…)

Thank you to the WhatReallyHappened reader who has alerted me to the fact that Rick Santorum has already introduced the “Iran Freedom Support Act” in the US senate and with 58 cosponsors the vote is only a formality. It turns out we have 21 democrats to thank for this act’s easy passage and wouldn’t you know it the AIPAC
website has the list of cosponsors. The following Democrats COSPONSORED this bogus legislation including the infamous Barbara Boxer, known as the only Democrat in the (…)